The phrase "air platoon" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in military or aviation contexts to refer to a unit or group of aircraft or personnel operating in the air.
Example: "The air platoon was deployed to provide aerial support during the operation."
Alternatives: "aviation unit" or "airborne squadron".
An anti-air platoon at the Kilometer 17 mark soon shot down an Israeli aircraft (either a Mirage III or an A-4 Skyhawk) with a Strela 2 missile, destroying it.
An ex-marine with a Sunday-school side part and Chiclet teeth, Besh had marketed himself as a family man, a good dad and a loving husband, a churchgoer and a patriot who liked to mention offhand that the aroma of toasting almonds for trout amandine was similar to the scent in the air that his Desert Storm platoon was trained to recognize as a chemical attack.
The Second Brigade has three full infantry battalions, typically teamed with an artillery battalion, and several companies or platoons specializing in air defense, military intelligence, communications, chemical defense and the like.
Thus the "actions" of the mortar squad destroying enemy gun emplacements, the flight of military planes providing air-cover and the infantry platoon taking and holding the ground might be severally necessary and jointly sufficient to achieve the collective end of defeating the enemy; as such these "actions" constitute a joint action.
An air traffic controller, she will command a platoon of them.
Like most Americans, I didn't watch the show when the episodes first aired, ignoring the critics — The Washington Post compared it to "Platoon" and The New York Times to a "great... poem or painting" — and the obsessed fans who, fearing that NBC would cancel the low-rated show, set up Web sites like savefridaynightlights.com.com
The front subsequently stagnated with the exception of artillery, air, and sniper activity and clashes between reconnaissance platoons for the next several months.
Tonight his new film, Bravo's Deadly Mission airs on Channel 4. The film follows a platoon of US Marines as they are dropped into the middle of Taliban stronghold, Marjah, as part of Operation Mushtaraq.
Tonight his new film, Bravo's Deadly Mission, a Dispatches Special, airs on Channel 4. The film follows a platoon of US Marines as they are dropped into the middle of Taliban stronghold, Marjah as part of Operation Mushtaraq.
The base had come under attack from insurgents and the platoon based there were busy fighting them off when air support was called in, Coroner Derek Winter said.
A few minutes later Majeske was killed, and Second Lieutenant George Roach, commanding the 3rd Platoon, again reported the situation and asked for an air strike.
